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    From Mina Girgis@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, January 29, 2026 17:10:02
    Hello,
    I have been daily driving Debian on my home PC and recently decided to also
    use it on my work laptop for university. The laptop is an ASUS TUF F15,
    which requires additional software to fully support all of its hardware features.
    I have successfully compiled and used asusctl, and basic functionality
    works as expected. However, some features depend on additional kernel
    support, such as the ASUS Armoury-related drivers. From my understanding,
    parts of this support are currently being upstreamed and may land in a
    future stable kernel release.
    I wanted to ask about the current status of this work from Debian?s perspective, and whether there is anything recommended in the meantime
    (such as backports, experimental kernels, or documentation I may have
    missed).
    Thank you for your time, and for your work on Debian.
    Best regards,
    Mina


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  • From Andy Smith@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, January 29, 2026 19:50:02
    Hi,

    On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 02:12:28AM +1030, Mina Girgis wrote:
    I wanted to ask about the current status of this work from Debian?s perspective, and whether there is anything recommended in the meantime
    (such as backports, experimental kernels, or documentation I may have missed).

    We are just users here, so you will probably want to contact the kernel
    team instead, unless another reader here happens to own a similar/same
    Asus machine and has first-hand knowledge of using Debian on it.

    I don't, but if the drivers you need do end up getting upstreamed then
    there is some hope for you as you should find newer kernbels in stable-backports and testing repositories, as well as the latest
    upstream stable kernel release in experimental.

    You probably want the debian-kernel mailing list:

    https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianKernel

    Thanks,
    Andy

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